Monday, February 27, 2012

Cheese

I gave Andrew tickets to a cheese making class at Sur la table for Valentine's Day. We made ricotta cheese and mozzarella cheese. The ricotta was made into an ice cream with chocolate shavings and sugared orange peel (yum!). It was a fun class with tons of people and lots of kitchen chaos.

Us at our station:

One of our team members stirring the mozzarella:

Andrew putting the cheese into the strainer to separate the curds and whey:

Time to heat up the cheese so we can stretch it into the mozzarella balls we see in the store:

Our ricotta and personal mozzarella cheese balls to take home:

Andrew's sister was in town and Papa David was such a great sport for watching all the cousins while we cooked and Ellen and Sandy hit up two farmer's markets. Super Grandpa!